A very large observational study raises important questions about the role of transfusions in PCI patients in the US.
In a study published in JAMA, researchers from Duke and Yale analyzed data from more than 2.25 million percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures at more than 1,400 hospitals. The data came from the CathPCI Registry, a large ongoing study that includes a significant proportion of all cardiac catheterization procedures in the US.
The overall transfusion rate was 2.14% but there was a very wide variation in transfusion practice patterns, ranging from 0 to 13%….
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